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...former World Boxing Foundation lightweight world champion, super featherweight champion and flyweight world champion, as well as the International Boxing Federation super bantamweight world champion. Has held the Ring Magazine titles for featherweight, super featherweight and light welterweight divisions. Also rated #1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world by Ring Magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boxing Champ Manny Pacquiao | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

They may be pretty in pink, but the Radcliffe women’s lightweight and heavyweight crews proved their power Saturday morning on the Charles River at the annual Beanpot Championships. With every rower sporting a pink shirt to support breast cancer awareness, both teams swept their local rivals to finish the cup season and prepare for the upcoming national championships. On the heavyweight team, all four varsity boats pulled out solid wins, with each crew beating its competition by over 11 seconds to keep possession of the Beanpot trophy and team banner for the third consecutive year...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Tops Foes From Home, Abroad | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...might just miss it. The blur of crisscrossing hands and zigzagging neon cups is probably the weirdest organized sport you've never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire competition could at first glance be mistaken for some peculiar carnival game. Players are tasked with arranging 12 lightweight plastic cups into various formations; a stacking kit comes with a touch-pad timer and cups that have a trio of holes in the bottom to reduce air resistance. At slower speeds, it seems easy enough: build up pyramids and break them down in a predetermined sequence. But as the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stacktacular: The Speedy World of Sport Stacking | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...lightweight varsity eight was able to take down the third-ranked Bulldogs but fell to the undefeated No. 1 Tigers. It was the Crimson’s first loss of the season in nine races. Harvard finished in 5:52.7, 4.5 seconds ahead of host Yale but 5.2 ticks behind the victorious Princeton, which took the Goldthwait Cup for the second year running...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Lights Pick Up First Loss | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

This weekend marked more races against the best crews in the nation, but only the lightweight women’s crew team proved up to the task. While No. 2 Yale got the better of the Black and White heavyweight women’s crew team on Saturday morning in the Charles River Challenge, the lightweights knocked off No. 2 Princeton to win the Class of 2009 Cup.The No. 4 Black and White have done what only one other crew in the country has managed to do—beat Princeton in dual competition. With all the hard work...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Competes With Nation’s Best | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

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